Yes, that’s all the further they have gone, but there is clearly an Item they are looking for. My guess the sub was looking for the same Item, even if they didn’t know what the Item was. It would seem to me they did indeed find something they couldn’t handle.

Bud understanding Stinky saying “Just a few miles from here” made me think of a Perry Bible Fellowship strip where Timmy’s dad doesn’t realize Timmy’s in trouble, just thinks Lassie’s hungry. Anthropomorphizing can be imprecise 🙂

I’m have a very strange sense of deja vu. heh. Seeing what went on in the comment of last strip in the current strip.

So Stinky isn’t that fast, and is just just that smart. And Bud tossed the anchor a couple of miles. Obviously the sub wasn’t sunk off the coast of Ireland like it was reported. So what was it doing in Ireland and what sunk it in the Triangle? Taking some cargo towards…Brazil? Central America?

One of the more notable items of celtic myth was Móralltach, the greatsword of the god Aengus. What would be wild would be the Singing Sword of Conaire Mór. What would it sound like through Monica’s set up.
Then the two biggies. Excalibur and the Holy Grail. Both have connections to that area. Joseph or Aremia supposed brought it with him to Brittainia.
I wonder what the germans found. Excalbur would have chased them away as being unfit to wield it. Also the Lady of the Lake could have moved the sub to keep it safe.

I noticed there are no forward torpedo tube doors. The U 296 could have been one of their cargo subs or oilers. That would explain no record of engagements – they would spend all their time avoiding combat vessels. Doesn’t seem tobe big enough, though – some of those cargo subs were HUGE.

No the hole on the side of the boat isn’t a torpedo door. U296 was a type VIIC/II Uboat. The type VCII boats had 4 outer doors covering each of the forward torpedo tubes. And the torpedo tubes are much further forward and located below the (surfaced) waterline. (The waterline is a bit below the tops of the side bulges on the). The torpedo doors would be in the crosshatched lines on the bow of the boat in panel two of yesterdays comic.

And it’s not the bow plane either. It above the right position lengthwise, but much too high. The bow plane was near the bottom of the boat.. I don’t know that that figure is.

Ah. And I found a decent image that shows the details. This is what a Type VII C submarine looks like intact.

So sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
From the files of World War II
Came the U-296

A spy and transport
The icy deep was its way
But what was the secret cargo it held
When it disappeared one day
– – –
The sub sees light once again
on this uncharted isle
Fetched from the deeps by a giant squid
For a girl with the sweetest smile

Check in tomorrow to see, my friends
Will we be laughing or scared
The mysteries of the deep continues on
For the girls of Wapsi Square

I’ve a whale of a tale
to tell ye, lads–
A whale of a tale, O’Toole–
‘Bout the giant squid
And the girl he loved
On nights like this with the moon above
It’s a whale of a tale
And it’s all true!
I’d swear by my tattoo!!

He plays with old shipwrecks under the sea!Stink-kee Squid-pants!!
Enormous and odorous and squishy is he!Stink-kee Squid-pants!!
Fetching an anchor for a Golem Girl!Stink-kee Squid-pants!!
He just might helped her save the whole world!Stink-kee Squid-pants!!

It wouldn’t be too much of a mystery why it’d have sunk in the North Channel, or for that matter along Ireland’s east, southern or Atlantic coasts: the area was rife with u-boat activity in WW2. Moreover, the North Channel separates Northern Ireland, which is in the UK, from Scotland, which is also in the UK, so there’s even less of a mystery there. Now, what it’s doing the triangle is another matter entirely.

Something else: Apparently it is normal that the ranking app goes wonky every new month?
No Way do I believe a sudden plunge to 80th.

On the comic: I think we are moving from south-american myth and history to celtic mythg and history. This could get interesting. I wonder what the celtic variation of Tepoz will be.. A small Irish parliamentarian??? 😆

Fun story arc, Paul, and completely credible with WWII U-boat history. It wasn’t unusual for the German fleet to be far from where they were thought to have been.

For a real-life story of this type, check out the book, “Shadow Divers” by Robert Kurson. Incredible true story of some deep-wreck divers who find a previously unknown U-boat wreck off the coast of New Jersey, and the long process of identifying which boat it was. Great book, and it reads like part Indiana Jones, part Pirate story, and part mystery suspense.

Look at the know details of U296 is getting interesting. Wartime assessment was that it’s was sunk on Mark 22, 1945 due to an ariel torpedo. But it wasn’t the target of the attack. Latest assessment (1985) shows it was missing on March 12, 1945 possibly sunk by a minefield.

It was a Schnorchel-fitted U-boat. And the type VII C had a 8,000+ nm range. So it quite easily could have made the trip from Germany -> Ireland -> the Triangle and not have been seen crossing the Atlantic. Curiouser and curiouser.

I doubt it. Paul habitually does a “nudge, nudge, wink, wink” -routine with Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones. Hard to ignore Monica’s profession in the context, but only to make a bit of fun of the public’s idea of archaeologists and anthropologists.

That reads like a dark Monty Python sketch. My favorite part was the “don’t poison the cigarette, but poison the asprin for the headache the cigarette gives you.” I suppose it could have gone further by giving the victim a pill to make them sleep, then wake up groggy so that, after getting up they, wouldn’t see the trip wire stretched across the stairs.

Please PLEASE Tell us whether that crapstorm of internet searchng had anything to do with this!! LOL Comments Influence ftw
Of course… he put the number there for a reason… Is is possible… He out-geeked us!!!

Ya’ know, I love Bud to death, but….if I saw her laying a laptop on the, probably damp, sand of an atoll, or cay, for that matter…I am geek enough to read her the riot act over it.
As long as Stinky was gone, that is…

Oh well, I would be more afraid of Bud than of Stinky…and she can probably poit the sand, moisture or anything out of the darn thing…
Anyway, if the computer knows what he’s doing, he wouldn’t refuse to work when a part of the Chimaera asks him to

I’m just thinking, there’s a submarine full of water right there with several obvious holes. It might be interesting to walk around it and see what the inevitable waterfalls are washing out of the interior.

Um … yeah. If there are no breaches in the hull, the crew’s bones should still be onboard. If not, we’ll know they didn’t go down with the boat. So would that mean the other “entity” looking for the same stuff as the girls are some Nazis? Could it be they are still alive and actively trying to complete their mission? Yes, they’d be pretty old now, but it could also be whatever they had on board gave them limited immortality.

Of course, not everyone in the German armed forces was evil. Many, probably most, were just poor slobs impressed into service doing their part for their country. So it’s a mistake to consider everyone as “Nazis.” They may simply be trying to keep anyone else from finding the artifacts for the good of the world.